8th Annual IFERA Conference 2008
'The Entrepreneuring Family'

Program

Breukelen, The Netherlands
July 2nd-5th, 2008



In order to make your stay in The Netherlands interesting and pleasant we have prepared an exciting Conference Program. For an overview of the entire conference, including the social calendar and Family Business Day, please check the chart below. For more detailed information about the Research Program, Family Business Day Program and Social Events Program please refer to the links above.

We hope that you will enjoy your stay at IFERA 2008!

Program Outline IFERA 2008 – The entrepreneuring family

The program is still subject to change.

Wednesday, July 2nd

09.00Start Doctoral Consortium
09.15 Welcome by Conference Chair – Lorraine Uhlaner
09.30 Frank Hoy: An overview of family business research and promising directions for the future
10.30 Roundtable (five faculty-moderated roundtables with discussion of doctoral students’ work)
11.30 Sabine Klein: Designing and teaching family business courses
12.15 Lunch
14.00 Sanjay Goel: Issues in developing robust theoretical models
15.00 Coffee
15.15 Ranjan Karri: Overcoming writer’s block and other practical issues in writing
16.00 Jess Chua: Dealing with editors and reviewers, and becoming a better reviewer
17.00 Interactive Q&A Panel with participating faculty
17.45 Evaluations
18.00 Lorraine Uhlaner: Conclusion and acknowledgments
18.15 Close
19.00 Registration and Opening IFERA Conference/ BBQ


Thursday, July 3rd

8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Welcome by IFERA President: Pannikos Poutziouris and Conference Chair: Roberto Flören
9.30 Keynote Speech by Frank Hoy
10.30 Coffee Break
10.50 Full Paper Presentations
12.20 Lunch
13.20 Round Table Discussions and Workshops - Abstracts
15.00 Coffee Break
15.10 Full Paper Presentations
16.40 Poster Presentations
17.40 Close
18.00 Dinner on the River Vecht
23.00 Close


Friday, July 4th

8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Panel discussion
10.00 Coffee Break
10.20 Full Paper Presentations
11.50 Round Table Discussions and Workshops - Abstracts
12.50 Lunch
14.00 Full Paper Presentations/ Round Table Discussions and Workshops - Abstracts
15.40 Close
15.50 Busses leaves for Amsterdam
17.00 Guided tour of Rijksmuseum or guided city tour
20.00 Dinner in Amsterdam
22.00 Busses leave for Nyenrode, Breukelen


Saturday July 5th

8.30 Breakfast
9.30 Welcome
9.35 Live Case Van Oord Dredging
10.15 Groups break out & coffee
11.00 Results from groups
11.30 Family feedback
12.00 Research reflection
Panel: Guido Corbetta, Johan Lambrecht, Lorraine Uhlaner
12.30 Closing & lunch